upload and displaying files on webpage - php

Question

The code below is uploading and displaying files on the upload.php page and it's working fine. The problem I have is that it's not displaying the files if I copy and paste the url of the upload.php page into a new webpage.
upload.php code
<?php
if (isset($_FILES['file_upload'])) {
$file = $_FILES['file_upload'];
$name = $file['name'];
$type = $file['type'];
$tmp_location = $file['tmp_name'];
$upload = 'uploads';
$final_destination = $upload.'/'.$name;
$error = $file['error'];
$max_upload_size = 2097152;
$size = $file['size'];
$allowedImageTypes = array( 'image/png', 'image/jpeg', 'image/gif', );
function imageTypeAllowed($imageType){
global $allowedImageTypes;
if(in_array($imageType, $allowedImageTypes)){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
//Check for errors
if($error > 0 || is_array($error)){
die("Sorry an error occured");
}
//Check if file is image
//Only required if image is only whjat we need
if(!getimagesize($tmp_location)){
die("Sorry, you can only upload image types");
}
if(!imageTypeAllowed($type)){
die("Sorry, file type is not allowed");
}
if(file_exists($final_destination)){
$final_destination = $upload.'/'.time().$name;
}
if(!move_uploaded_file($tmp_location, $final_destination)){
die("Cannot finish upload, something went wrong");
}
$handle = opendir('uploads');
if($handle){
while(($entry = readdir($handle)) !== false){
if($entry != '.' && $entry != '..'){
echo "$entry<br>";
}
}
closedir($handle);
}
}
?>
<h2>File Successfully uploaded!</h2>

Answer 1

If you indent your code to be human-readable, you'll find that the entire server-side code block is wrapped in this conditional:
if (isset($_FILES['file_upload'])) {
// all of your code
}
This means that all of that server-side code will execute only if a file_upload value is POSTed to the form. When you copy/paste the URL into a new browser window and invoke that request, you're invoking a GET request with no form values. Since you're not uploading a file in this request, the isset() condition evaluates to false and your code isn't executed.
You should separate your functionality into two groups:
Handling the upload.
Displaying the current state of the data.
The code for handling the upload should execute only when an upload is present. The code for displaying the data should execute always.
If I'm reading your code correctly, all you should need to do is split out the last few parts:
if (isset($_FILES['file_upload'])) {
// the rest of your code
}
$handle = opendir('uploads');
if($handle){
while(($entry = readdir($handle)) !== false){
if($entry != '.' && $entry != '..'){
echo "$entry<br>";
}
}
closedir($handle);
}